The Canonical team has released Ubuntu 12.04 - a new long term support release. The biggest new feature is the HUD, an addition to the traditional application menu system, where you can search for the actions you want to perform instead of having to hunt for them in menus. Unity overall has been improved, and I must say that even though this new release is simply not at all ready for Asus ZenBooks, Unity runs perfectly well on it, and to my own shock and surprise, I'm slowly warming up to it. It's starting to make sense, it looks nice (especially after some custom tweaking), has become a lot more configurable, and it's really, really, really fast.

Yep, Ubuntu Studio 11.10 was the last straw before I jumped to Mint 12, I can't be happier, it was literally an upgrade away. Mint 12 + Mate desktop = the way Desktop Linux should be, no shoehorning a tablet UI onto the desktop which seems to be the new fad for every OS...